J&K saw 36 positives of COVID19 on Wednesday taking the tally of cases to 971. Seven among these are police personnel from Anantnag.
Eight samples taken at District Police Lines (DPL) Anantnagtested positive today. Seven of these samples, Dr Qazi Haroon, OSD todirectorate of health services Kashmir said, were of police personnel, whileone female positive case was living in DPL Anantnag. “We are tracing otherdetails of these people and their contact history,” he said.
Today 30 positive cases came from Kashmir division and sixfrom Jammu division. Of the 30 cases in Kashmir, 20 samples were from Anantnagdistrict.
Dr S Saleem Khan, nodal officer COVID19 at GMC Srinagar saidtwo of the samples had been taken at SDH Kokernag, six from Seer Hamdan, oneeach from Botengo, Nai Basti, Fresal and Khirtaj areas of the district. Eightsamples had been sent from DPL Anantnag, he said. In addition, one sample fromMohammadpora Kulgam also tested positive today, he added.
Anantnag district currently has the highest number of activepositive cases – 127. Srinagar district which has reported 137 cases currentlyhas 49 active cases.
Dr Khan said CD Hospital tested 1163 samples, its highest,out of which 21 were found positive – those from Anantnag and Kulgam districts.
At SKIMS, 1726 samples were tested in one day, the highesttill date for any lab in J&K. These yielded 13 positives, Dr Faroo Jan,medical superintendent of the Institute said. He said seven of these cases werefrom Budgam district, one from Dangiwacha Baramulla and five from Jammudivision.
The positive cases from Budgam were from Lolipora (3 cases),Watpora (3 cases) and Zalpora (one case).
Dr Jan said 45 samples of healthcare staff taken at theInstitute yesterday were found negative. The samples had been taken after oneadmitted patient had tested positive. He said more samples of the patientscontacts were being taken while the COVID19 positive case continued to remaincritical.
Government handout reported district wise cases based onresidence of the positive people. Wednesday’s district-wise distribution is Anantnag – 18, Baramulla -1,Shopian – 1, Kulgam – 3, Budgam – 7, Jammu – 3, Kathua – 3.
With the new cases, the total of COVID19 in J&K neared1000 mark. Kashmir’s cases stood at 874 while Jammu had 97 cases reported tilldate.
The handout said 11 patients were declared recovered todayand discharged.
One death was also reported from Jammu division today. The72 year old man tested positive after he died suddenly. He was a cardiacpatient. The death is the 11th death in J&K attributed to the virus.